Swimming with Bridgeport Girls Quotes

“Hell, life was so hard that you have to spend a third of it asleep just to have the energy to deal with the rest of it.”
― Anthony Tambakis, Swimming with Bridgeport Girls

“But I had no illusions about really getting away with anything. I knew I was leaving a paper trail. And I knew time was running out. I was worried sick. I never ate. I never slept. I owed everybody. How did I let it happen? I really don't know. You always hear a lot of talk about people self-destructing, but I don't think that's true. People don't self-destruct. They unravel.”
― Anthony Tambakis, Swimming with Bridgeport Girls

“I used to think that he had the greatest attitude a person can have. Easygoing. Nonjudgmental. It took a long time to realize that the reason he never judged is because he didn't want to be judged himself. He accepted everything and challenged nothing by design. It's just that simple. "I had a lover's quarrel with the world" is written on Robert Frost's grave. R? He has a nonaggression pact with the world...”
― Anthony Tambakis, Swimming with Bridgeport Girls

“Breaking even's just getting back what was yours in the first place," I said. "Doesn't that make it all seem like a big waste of time?"

"Not to me. To me, breaking even means getting back to where you used to be and being happy to be there. Breaking even means appreciating what you had before you started gambling.”
― Anthony Tambakis, Swimming with Bridgeport Girls

“Like a lot of people, Dawn could never quite figure out why it was that she couldn't get what she wanted out of life despite lowering her asking price year by year.”
― Anthony Tambakis, Swimming with Bridgeport Girls